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Saturday, April 11, 2015

"Over the past few years it seems you can’t read about higher education
without thinking about how ripe it is for disruption. Rising costs,
employer dissatisfaction with graduate skills, technology advances and
new entrants are making the case for the need for new ways of thinking
about and delivering education. Based on some recent developments,
business schools may be the first to feel the heat." according to Margaret Andrews, academic administrator, instructor and consultant.

Clay Christensen, who popularised the idea of disruption, has written and spoken quite a bit about disruption in higher education in general, and the management education market in particular. So how is this beginning to play out in the management education sphere? There are many new initiatives afoot.
Low-cost MBA alternatives
From Kigali, Rwanda, one woman is piecing together the equivalent of an MBA
by taking a series of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from
different providers. For less than US$1000, she’s taken courses from
some of the top business schools in the world and the website, No-Pay MBA, offers information to help others do the same.

Students can now take a variety of courses from various providers in a
‘cafeteria style’, like the example above. While this buffet of courses
doesn’t (yet) add up to a degree, at some point some organisation is
going to figure out how to assign or award credit for these disparate
classes – and accredit the programme of study. Then students will be
able to bundle together their own degrees and certificates, choosing the
best courses from the best schools and building their own 'All-Star'
MBA programme. Read more... Source: University World News

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Hello, my name is Helge Scherlund and I am the Education Editor and Online Educator of this personal weblog and the founder of eLearning • Computer-Mediated Communication Center.
I have an education in the teaching adults and adult learning from Roskilde University, with Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Human Resource Development (HRD) as specially studied subjects. I am the author of several articles and publications about the use of decision support tools, e-learning and computer-mediated communication. I am a member of The Danish Mathematical Society (DMF), The Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics (DSTS) and an individual member of the European Mathematical Society (EMS). Note: Comments published here are purely my own and do not reflect those of my current or future employers or other organizations.